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It remains therefore with me after this unexpected and unlucky
Detainer, most Earnestly to Entreat You to make up for this Loss
time immediately upon Receipt thereof Convening your Assembly,
and Laying before them the aforesaid Letter of the Secretary
of State, and that you will forthwith Use your utmost Endeavors
and Influence with the Council and Assembly to induce them to
Raise with all possible dispatch within your Government as large a
body of Men as the Number and Situation of its Inhabitants may
allow
The Kings reasons for His Majestys Requisition of this further
Aid from his faith full American Subjects are too Obvious and too
clearly pointed out by the aforesaid Circular Letter of his Secretary
of State to need any Additional Enforcement and yet I can not
refrain from repeating a Recommendation which ought and I doubt
not will with it all the Weight and Impression which from its
prudence and Sagacity it has a just right to expect. Since it proceeds
from that Spirited View of Reducing the Enemy to the Necessity
Accepting a Peace on Terms of Glory and Advantage to his Maj-
estys Crown and Beneficial in particular to his Subjects in America,
to which great and Essential Object nothing can certainly so Effec-
tually Contribute as the Kings being enabled to employ as immeadi-
ately as may be such part of the Regular Forces in North America
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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April 13
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as may be Adequate to some great and Important Enterprize against
the Enemy
And as such are the Kings Resolutions and that his Majesty
the better to provide for the full and Entire Security of his Domin-
ions in North America, and particularly of the possession of his
Conquest there during the Absence of such part of the Regular
Forces to be employed on the aforesaid Enterprize, has desired that
the several Provinces and Colonies of this Continent Should forth-
with raise as large a Body of Men as the Number and Situation
of their Inhabitants may allow, I firmly Rely and trust that your
Province will upon this Occasion Exert it self to its utmost, and
that I shall have the Satisfaction to Report to his Majesty how
chear fully it has Acquiesced with his Recommendation
Nothing therefore now Remains for me to Add, than that you will
Observe, by the aforesaid Circular Letter of the Secretary of State
that as a further Encouragement to Such Exertion of the Provinces
his Majesty has ordered as heretofore, that the Provincial Forces
Should be Victualled in the Same manner and in the same Proportion
as the Regulars and that they Should be Supplied with Arms and
Tents at the Expence of the Crown Moreover that Strong Recom-
mendations will be made to Parliament in their session next year to
grant a Compensation to the Provinces for the Expences they may
be at on this Occasion according as their respective Vigor and
Strenuous Efforts shall justly appear to merit, I must therefore as
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